Trying to get any useful action from the Israeli police is futile. Get over it - you have to find other venues to address the issues.
(I speak from experience of multiple personal encounters were I needed their help and didn't get it). On 27 January 2013 09:30, shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <y...@tkos.co.il>wrote: > >> >> This is not true in general under Israeli law, as I have found out myself >> from unfortunate personal experience. See http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%* >> *D7%90%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%**99%D7%A2%D7%AA_%D7%A4%D7%A9%**D7%A2<http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%AA_%D7%A4%D7%A9%D7%A2> >> >> > This law is about telling the authorities about a CRIME THAT IS GOING TO > HAPPEN, that you know about, so that the authorities can stop the criminal > PRIOR to the act of crime. > > Unless you claim the ISP KNOWS that a DDoS will happen (in the future) to > the customer (they can't possibly know. like I've already said - chances of > catching the source behind a DDoS are almost nil) - I personally find it > difficult to understand why you think this law is relevant on our case... > > Also, not even sure that this is called a crime that happens within the > borders of Israel. After all, the attacker, and his 'associate' computers, > are all (for the lack of better knowledge) outside the borders of Israel > when this happens. Again, the Israeli police (or Government) has no > jurisdiction over the whole Internet... > > I think it is time for me to quote from the Serenity Prayer: > > "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The > courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference." > > Of course, I wish your friend luck if he opts to pursue this anyways, with > the hope for: a) any sort of success, and b) that he won't waste so much > time/money on his attempts... > > Good luck! > > -- Shimi > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- [image: View my profile on LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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